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«I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.»
«Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.»
Author: William Maxwell
| Keywords:
anthology, Body of, body of work, short stories, short story, survives, The short story
«There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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antisocial, Body of, deprive, desperate, fundamentally, inclination, incurable, methods, opposes, organized society, subtler, ten thousand, usurpation, Wilder
«Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.»
«There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, w»
«Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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anatomies, anatomy, Body of, convulsive, muscles, muscular, the Mountain
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
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administering, anonymous, Body of, digging, enlightened, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, funds, here and there, honorably, host, magazine, official, patron, patrons, pockets, public-spirited, publication, publications, public funds, scruple, scruples, spirited, strike home, striking
«Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Myths
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accounts, and so forth, Body of, concerning, deities, distinguished, heroes, invents, mythologies, mythology, origin, primitive
«Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Body of, body of water, gill, occupying, ocean, thirds, Third World, two-thirds
«Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self-denial
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Body of, denial, leprous, self-denial, shining, sore, The Shining
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